"You can argue with a statement, but you can't argue with a dramatic image."
From Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, Charles Baxter
From Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, Charles Baxter
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"You can argue with a statement, but you can't argue with a dramatic image."
From Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, Charles Baxter  "Most people think the future is unbelievable, but that's only because they think the past, the present, and the future are like lines going in a single direction. What Laisvé knows in her heart is that everything that we might become at first sounds unbelievable, like a speculative story or a fairy tale, both in the world and lifted a little away from it. Imagination leaping from sea into sky and back, like a beautiful black orca."
From Thrust, Lidia Yuknavitch  "Much of the time, we can talk about fiction without having to take a stand about what is real and what isn't, although we do sometimes say that this event or character is 'implausible' or 'fantastical', thereby rescuing truth-value for the plausible and everyday."
From Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, Charles Baxter  "In psychically and psychologically supercharged narratives there is no sense of proper proportion and almost no one who has common sense. Everyone is in the grip of some mania."
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